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Honorlock Guidance for Spring 2025

Honorlock Guidance for Spring 2025

 

New Features and Tools

Honorlock Prep Tutorial Assignment

  • We recommend you create a for-credit assignment in Canvas and require students to complete the Honorlock Student Prep Tutorial. If you need assistance setting up an assignment exam for credit, please email the Canvas team to request a consultation.

 

Hotkey Detection

  • The Hotkey Detection feature is automatically enabled to prevent the use of “hotkey” keyboard shortcuts to take screenshots during a proctored exam. A list of hotkeys that can be detected can be found here.

Reduce Anxiety for Student test-takers

Offer For Credit Practice Exams

  • Taking an Honorlock Exam requires additional steps beyond logging into Canvas and opening the exam. If you launch a live exam without conducting practice exams, students will experience more issues than if you establish several practice exams.
  • To encourage students to participate in the practice exams, we recommend you require them as for-credit assignments. If you need assistance setting up a practice exam for credit, please email the Canvas team to request a consultation.

 

Prepare Pencil & Paper Alternative

  • Despite best efforts and troubleshooting, it is possible that some students will be unable to access your assignment using Honorlock. We recommend you prepare pencil & paper alternatives for students who are unable, due to incompatible device(s) or for other reasons, to complete their assignment through Honorlock.

Set Clear Expectations for Using Honorlock

Syllabus Resources

Sample scripts stating requirements:

  • “All students are required to use Honorlock to complete exams for this course.”
  • “Before you take your first exam, you must complete 1) The Honorlock Student Prep Tutorial Assignment and 2) [# of] Practice Exams in Canvas.”
  • List any custom requirements for Honorlock exams.

Promote Academic Integrity

Add UT Honor Code Affirmation to All Quizzes and Exams

  • The Office of Academic Affairs strongly encourages all instructors to add an Honor Code Affirmation item as your first quiz question in all Honorlock Exams. We have added this Affirmation item to the Item Bank in Canvas. To add this question to your quizzes, follow these instructions or email the Canvas team to request a consultation.

 

 

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How to get help

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You need help. But maybe you’re not sure whom to contact.

So… who you gonna call?

 

 

Below are three resources you can always turn to for assistance:

  1. The School of Nursing Contact (Julia Wolfe, Instructional Technology Specialist at  julia.wolfe@austin.utexas.edu or 512 471 4552.)
  2. The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
  3. Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS)

 

Julia Wolfe – Support within UT Austin School of Nursing

  • Instructional Technology support
    • Need help with Canvas, Zoom, Honorlock, Panopto, Qualtrics, PowerPoint, or… dozens of other software and teaching tools?
    • Not sure if a particular tool or software is approved for use at UT?
    • If I don’t know the answer, I will find it or find someone who does.
  • Instructional Design support
    • Instructional Designers create things that help people learn. So, if you need ANY teaching-related assistance, not just with technology, I’m here to help. I can share ideas from other faculty or help you come up with a custom solution for your class and your students.

More information and lots of resources are available here on my blog: https://sites.utexas.edu/son-edtech-design/

 

CTL – UT Faculty Development & Instructional Support

The CTL provides all of UT faculty with many of the same services that I provide within the School of Nursing. But they also have the ability to do much more.

  • Instructional Strategies
  • Teaching with Technology
  • Grad Student Development
  • New Faculty Symposium
  • Grants and Fellowships

All these and more are offered by the team at the CTL. And much more information is available on their website:  https://ctl.utexas.edu/

 

LAITS – Desktop & Classroom Support

LAITS primarily helps us maintain our computer hardware and our physical equipment. They are also here to help us install and update software, ensure computer security, and more.

  • Desktop support – need assistance with your office or work computer? Maybe you need to software installed or it’s time to upgrade you to a completely new computer.
  • Classroom support – need help in a Nursing classroom with ANY of the audio/visual hardware in our classrooms? Maybe the projector isn’t working, or the microphone is malfunctioning, or you can’t find a USB port for the computer.
  • Contacting LAITS
    • They are available in-person in their 2nd-floor office (NUR 2.104P), please contact them by phone or email.
    • You can call 512-471-5000 or email laits-help@utexas.edu.